How Do I Want To Feel?
Great question from on of my adult ADHD coaching clients that she has started to ask herself to help her change her life.
I suggested she use it as a mantra. Ask the question often. It will provide clarity.
It’s helped her get more stuff done, do less of certain things and clarify what’s important and what to do. Also who to be to get the feeling she wants.
We ADHD adults often have trouble thinking about the future. We often just live in the now or the not now. We’re often time blind.
Asking ourselves how do we want to feel? Can help us ADDers think about the future more often, and in a less stressed, an...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - July 21, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Coaching Source Type: blogs
If ADHD Didn ’ t Have Such A Negative Connotation It Would Be Easier To Talk About It
#18. This post is a part of a series where people answer my anonymous survey question on the ADHD Catch 22. If you have ADHD but haven’t gone public with it, what would it take to you go public with ADHD?
There are risks and rewards for going public with ADHD AND for staying hidden in the ADHD closet. See this post for context on the series.
“I have often heard people describe ADHD as nonsense. It took me the age of 24 to finally get diagnosed because I started to believe what I was hearing from others. If ADHD didn’t have such a negative connotation it would be easier to talk about it. It is also great ...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - July 17, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: What Would It Take To Go Public With ADHD? Source Type: blogs
If ADHD Didn’t Have Such A Negative Connotation It Would Be Easier To Talk About It
#18. This post is a part of a series where people answer my anonymous survey question on the ADHD Catch 22. If you have ADHD but haven’t gone public with it, what would it take to you go public with ADHD?
There are risks and rewards for going public with ADHD AND for staying hidden in the ADHD closet. See this post for context on the series.
“I have often heard people describe ADHD as nonsense. It took me the age of 24 to finally get diagnosed because I started to believe what I was hearing from others. If ADHD didn’t have such a negative connotation it would be easier to talk about it. It is also great ...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - July 17, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: What Would It Take To Go Public With ADHD? Source Type: blogs
ADHD and Exercise, Benefits, Obstacles To Exercising, And Solutions To Those Obstacles
. Here are notes taken from my Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group meeting about this topic. I started the group in 2004 and have I think 29 notes from our meetings on various topics relating to ADHD, have a look at a few.
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ADHD and Exercise. Exercise is the provider of dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine & beta-endorphins and reducer of stress and helper that makes it easier to focus on boring tasks.
Exercise is the number one non medical way to manage ADHD. I often suggest to my adult ADHD coaching clients to exercise before they have to do boring or repetitive tasks, it will help make it easier fo...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - May 29, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Treatment Source Type: blogs
Third Annual BC ADHD Awareness Week 2014. Summary Of What We Accomplished
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Better late than never eh?
Cross posted to BCADHD.com
Thanks to our volunteers for making this week happen. Andrew, Barb, Chris, Christopher, Hazel, Jade, Jennifer, Kat, Maggie, Marc, and Paul. And thanks to Mike for his $500 donation which allowed us to print the posters and support group brochures and the adult ADHD screener test to metro Vancouver libraries and bookstores.
Also thanks to the members of the Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group who helped out with donations.
In 2003 we had ADHD books displays at 78 Libraries and bookstores throughout 23 cities in the Lower Mainland.
In 2014,...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - December 4, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Awareness Politics ADHD related Vancouver Source Type: blogs
BC NDP Health Critic Judy Darcy’s Great Speech on ADHD In The BC Legislature. Her Son Has ADHD
BC NDP Health Critic Judy Darcy’s Great Speech on ADHD In The BC Legislature. Her Son Has ADHDPost from: Adult ADD Strengths
Cross posted to BC ADHD.
I was very happy to watch the BC NDP’s Health Critic Judy Darcy’s @DarcyJudy her Facebook great speech on ADHD in the BC Legislature on the BC Leg live stream Tuesday October 23rd 2014. And tweet excerpts from it throughout the day. It was even more powerful when she mentioned her son had ADHD. Here’s some background on her from her BC Legislature bio.
In 2003, Judy was honoured with the Council of Canadians Activist of the Year award, ...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - November 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Awareness Politics ADHD related Source Type: blogs
CADDAC 6th Annual ADHD Conference In Vancouver, Nov 1st & 2nd Dr. Russell Barkley, Dr. Adele Diamond, Gina Pera & More
CADDAC 6th Annual ADHD Conference In Vancouver, Nov 1st & 2nd Dr. Russell Barkley, Dr. Adele Diamond, Gina Pera & MorePost from: Adult ADD Strengths
Cross posted to BCADHD
CADDAC, The Center for ADHD Awareness, Canada will have it’s 6th annual conference in Vancouver, BC November 1st & 2nd.
Early bird deadline is in 2 days October 14th, don’t wait.
It’s pretty rare to get ADHD conferences in Vancouver, CADDAC is a Toronto based Canadian ADHD organization so it’s meetings are usually down east in Toronto or Montreal, so you might want to check it out because you may not see another on...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - October 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Conferences and Workshops Vancouver Source Type: blogs
North Vancouver City Council Declares BC ADHD Awareness Week. Thanks Councillor Guy Heywood, Mayor Darrell Mussatto and City Councillors!
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Cross posted to BCADHD.com. North Vancouver City Council October 6th 2014 has declared October 14-20th as BC ADHD Awareness Week. North Vancouver BC is now the third city in Canada to declare ADHD Awareness Week.
The first city in Canada to do so was Vancouver BC in 2011, then Airdrie, Alberta in 2013. One day our eastern cousins will finally catch up:)
ADHD Awareness has been national in the US since an act of the US Senate in 2004. Still not declared nationally in Canada’s parliament. Or any provincial legislatures.
That’s why we need more cities in BC and the rest of Canada t...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - October 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Awareness Politics ADHD related Source Type: blogs
All 21 Vancouver Libraries Will Have BC ADHD Awareness Week Book Displays Oct 14-20th
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Cross posted from BCADHD.com We’ve signed up all 21 Vancouver Libraries to have BC ADHD Awareness Week 2014 ADHD Book Displays. Oct 14-20th.
There will be books for children, teens and adults with ADHD, books by authors who have ADHD who have written non ADHD books, our ADHD Awareness Week Poster and Brochures on the only 2 ADHD support groups in BC, my Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group and CHADD Vancouver, and the quick Harvard Adult ADHD Screener Test.
ADHD Book Displays at Vancouver Public Libraries:
Britannia Library
Carnegie Library
Central Library
Champlain Heights L...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - September 25, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Awareness Vancouver Source Type: blogs
I’m 38 And I’m Still Keeping ADHD A Secret To Avoid Social And Work Problems
I’m 38 And I’m Still Keeping ADHD A Secret To Avoid Social And Work ProblemsPost from: Adult ADD Strengths
#16. This post is a part of a series where people answer my anonymous survey question on the ADHD Catch 22. If you have ADHD but haven’t gone public with it, what would it take to you go public with ADHD?
There are risks and rewards for going public with ADHD AND for staying hidden in the ADHD closet. See this post for context on the series.
“I’m 38 and I’m still keeping ADHD a secret to avoid social and work problems. I let the people around me think my priorities are wrong to avoi...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - September 24, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Pete Quily Tags: What Would It Take To Go Public With ADHD? Source Type: blogs
MLAPlaydate. Polite, Peaceful, Playful, Powerful Parents & Kids. Info And Photos Of Open Source Activism in BC Education
MLAPlaydate. Polite, Peaceful, Playful, Powerful Parents & Kids. Info And Photos Of Open Source Activism in BC EducationPost from: Adult ADD Strengths
MLAPlaydate. Democracy can be fun if you’re imaginative:)
Here is a bit of background on the open source activism online and offline that Quinn Donovan, I @pqpolitics, & Paul Dayson and many, many other BC parents their children and other citizens made happen online and offline for public education in BC.
Also will list the first day’s media coverage and some tweets with photos of the different MLAPlaydates across BC.
There were 22 MLAPlaydates o...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - September 18, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Advocacy Politics ADHD related Politics Non ADHD Vancouver Source Type: blogs
BC ADHD Awareness Week 2014 Is October 13-19th. Join Us In Our Hyperfocus
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Hi BC ADHD Awareness Week this year is October 13-19th 2014.
The Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group volunteers, I and our partners created 80 BC ADHD Awareness Week activities in 23 BC cities in 2013.
The largest number of 2013 ADHD Awareness events of any province in Canada or any state in the USA.
See some of the photos of our activities here. Media coverage is here http://bcadhd.com/category/media-coverage/ Here’s our poster from last year.
Here’s the list of our 2012 BC ADHD Awareness Week List of Activities.
Would you like to help join us in raising awareness o...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - August 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Awareness Vancouver Source Type: blogs
I’m Mentioned in The Vancouver Courier Newspaper On Adult ADHD And Stigma
I’m Mentioned in The Vancouver Courier Newspaper On Adult ADHD And StigmaPost from: Adult ADD Strengths
I’m mentioned in The Vancouver Courier Newspaper on Adult ADHD And The Harm of ADHD Stigma
I should have posted this much earlier. I was quoted in The Vancouver Courier Newspaper on Adult ADHD And The Harm of ADHD Stigma, by Cheryl Rossi, June 30th p. A13.
It’s related to this post NPA Vancouver Politician Melissa De Genova Publicly Shames And Stigmatizes Her Political Opponent Sarah Blyth For Getting Help For ADHD At Work
about this
Then Melissa De Genova asked why the governing party would not elect...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - July 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADHD Stigma Politics ADHD related Vancouver Source Type: blogs
What Others Have Said About NPA Vancouver’s Melissa De Genova ADHD Shaming And Stigmatizing
What Others Have Said About NPA Vancouver’s Melissa De Genova ADHD Shaming And StigmatizingPost from: Adult ADD Strengths
See my previous post. See The Vancouver Courier article on this.
I was not the only one shocked and disgusted by NPA Vancouver’s Melissa De Genova public shaming and stigmatizing her political opponent, Vision Vancouver’s Sarah Blyth for getting help with ADHD at work at a public city of Vancouver Park Board meeting.
This is not just about Melissa and Sarah. Or even just ADHD. If another politician or City of Vancouver staff had ADHD or another mental health condition or a disability,...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - July 15, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADHD Stigma Politics ADHD related Vancouver Source Type: blogs
NPA Vancouver Politician Melissa De Genova Publicly Shames And Stigmatizes Her Political Opponent Sarah Blyth For Getting Help For ADHD At Work
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NPA Vancouver politician Melissa De Genova, a park board commissioner, publicly shamed and stigmatized her opponent, Vision Vancouver park board commissioner Sarah Blyth, for getting help for ADHD at work while chair of the Vancouver park board (business coaching by a coach with an MBA in Executive Coaching) during a public City of Vancouver park board meeting May 26th 2014.
NPA Vancouver, is the Non Partisan Association, the partisan conservative civic political party in Vancouver, BC, Canada that attempts to pretend that it is not a partisan political party.
Here’s Sarah Blyth...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - July 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADHD Stigma Politics ADHD related Vancouver Source Type: blogs
